The photos highlights few programs of' NRI Parent Association Ahmadabad 'during the Year 2008(I.E. FROM THE TOP TO BOTTOM 1) THE ARTIST GUEST IS BEING RECOGNIZED DURING THE YEAR END PICNIC ON 28/12/08 2)THE TALENT PRESENTATION DURING PICNIC BY MEMBER 3)MEMBERS ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM ON 28/12/084)THE FIRST ID CARD PRESENTATION TO THE HON. FOUNDER CHAIRMAN BHARAT DESAI ON 28/12/08.5)AND 6)FAREWELL GIVAN BY MEMBERS TO MRS VARSHA B DESAI AND BHARAT DESAI WHO WERE LEAVING FOR USA.7)THE REPORT APPEARED REGARDING THE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES OF NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION,AHD IN THE 'TIMES OF INDIA' DATED 01/09/08.8) THE GROUP PHOTO OF MEMBERS OF NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION,AHD AT SARDAR SMARAK, KARAMSAD.9)THE JOINT MEETING OF NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION OF AHD AND BARODA AT SARDAR SMARAK, KARAMSAD.
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THE FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME OF THE PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION,AHEMADABAD
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DURING 2007
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SHARAD UTSAV PROGRAM AT SHRI SHIVANAND ASHRAM AT JODHPUR TEKRA,SETTELITE ROAD,AHD IN THE PRESENSE OF PRITI SENGUPTA,NRI WRITER,PRAVIN KOTAK, CHAIRMAN,ISCON GROUP,AND KANTIBHAI KAPASI,KAPASI GROUP ON 26/10/07. BESIDES THAT 'THE DIPAVALI MILAN PROGRAM
DURING 2008
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1)MUSICAL EVENING WITH DINNER ON 29/03/08 WITH THE CHIEF GUEST KRISHNAKANT VAKHARIA,PRESIDENT,VISHVA GUJARATI SAMAJ.
2)THE PRESENTATION ON 'SOUTH KOREAN SEROJEM THARAPY' BY DIVYES DARAJI AT SILVER BROOK BLDG,PARIMAL CROSSING,AHEMDABAD ON12/07/08.
3) THE SEMINAR ON 'THE PROTECTION OF SENIOR CITIZEN AND SECURITY' WITH 'GUJARAT TIMES',USA, ON 13/07/08 AT TAGORE HALL, AHEMDABAD
4)THE ARRANGEMENT OF BASIC COMPUTER COURSE FOR MEMBERS BETWEEN 7TH JULY 08 TO 18TH JULY 08 AT "AHEMDABAD MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION," VASTRAPUR, AHEMDABAD.
5)RAJIV AVASTHI AND DIPA SHAH MUSICAL NIGHT ON 28/08/08 AT TOWN HALL, AHD
6)THE FREE SCREENING OF MOVIE 'BACHANA YE HASINO' AND THE PRESENTATION ON ARTHRITIS BY DR BHARAT MODY, AT 'CITY GOLD MULTIPLEX', ASHRAM ROAD AHD. THE WHOLE PROGRAM WAS SPONSERRED BY AXIS BANK ALONG WITH BREAKFAST ON 29/08/08.
7)FREE GENERAL CHECK UP AND PRESENTATION BY DOCTORS ON MAJOR DISEASE AT 'MANIPAL CURE AND CARE', HIMALAYAN MALL, DRIVE IN ROAD, AHD ON 07/09/08
8)PICNIC TO 'SARDAR PATEL MEMORIAL', KARAMSAD, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION, BARODA, ON 14/09/08
9)THE 'HEALTH AWARENESS SEMINAR' AT THAKOREBHAI HALL, LAW GARDEN, AHD ORGANIZED BY 'SALBI HOSPITAL' ON 12/10 /08
10)'CLARION TOWNSHIP'(I.E. FOR NRI) PRESENTATION BY CLARIS CO AT THEIR FACTORY PREMISES, ON 19/10/08.
11) THE VISIT OF 'APPOLLO HOSPITAL' AHEMDABAD, WITH PRESENTTATION BY DOCTORS ON VARIOUS DESEASE.
12) THE YEAR END PICNIC WAS ARRANGED FOR MEMBERS NEAR BHAGVAT VIDYAPITH, S G ROAD ALONG WITH PRESENTATIONS OF 'MEMBERS TALENT' ON 28/12/08
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You may read here below the Diwali Greetings(i.e.2007) from NRI Parent Association, Ahmadabad,with strong membership of 200 members.
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NRI PARENTS ASSOCIATION, AHMEDABAD
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Dear Nripaaites, (Members & Family Members of NRI Parents Asso. A’bad.)
On the Occasion of the Festival of ‘Lights’
We, the Office Bearers & the Members of the Executive Committee,
Wish You A Very Joyous
DIWALI
And A Very
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
May Almighty bless you all with.....
Health & Happiness-Peace & Prosperity in your life!
Please remember to attend ..................
Diwali & New Year
Get-to-gather
On Sunday Date ?..........
(Information will reach you well-in-advance!)
We are now reaching the Membership Strength of
Congratulations to all our
Active Sponsorer Members for adding
New Members to our NRIPAA FAMILY!
Bharat Desai
Chairman
Ashok Shroff
Treasurer
Naresh Patel
Jt. Treasurer
Hemant Shah
President
Shailesh Sheth
Vice President
Darshana Thakor
Arun Gandhi
Ashwin Tolia
Naimesh Shah
Hitesh Patel
Kalpana Mahadevia
Committee Members.......
Manubhai Patel
Dr. Rajendra Shah
Shrikant Makim
Shailesh Gandhi
Kishan Shah
I. C. Shah
Hon.Secretary
Dr.Suresh Shah
Jt. Secretary
200!!!
Advisory Committee :
Jeshingbhai Sheth Chhabildas Shah
Ramesh Rawal

You can read the latest circulars of the 'NRI Parent Association,Ahemdabad by clicking on the link given below. You may also get the highlight of their latest activities.
( IN THE ABOVE PHOTO 'NRI FATHERS' ABOVE 75 YEARS)
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NRI PARENT,AHD,-THE LATEST CIRCULARS

Following programs were arranged by NRI Parent Association, Ahmedabad during the Month of December 05
(THE INDIAN NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS 'NRI')
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Date/ Venue /Nature of program
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12/16/05 - Thakorebhai Hall,Law Garden,Ahd - The Musical program-
-of Shyamal/Saumel Munshi
12/25/05 - Reform Club,Ashram Road,Ahd - The Musical program of old film song
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The Program arranged during the Year 2006
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01/08/06 -Blindmen Association, Vastrapure, Ahd - The New Year Gathering/High Tea/The talk on 'Save Life' by Bharat Bhavsar/ The talk by Harikrishna Majmundar, Community Leader, Silicon Valley,CA, USA.
02/13/06-Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ashram road, Ahd, -The talks by Bakul Tripathy, President,Gujarati Sahitya Parishad/Kishore Desai,Editor 'Gurjari',Philadelphia,USA/Subhash Shah,Editor, 'Gujarat Darpan',NJ, USA.
03/05/06-Narmada Dam, Sardar Sarover,- Members Picnic
05/14/06-'Pasana institute of health and fitness',Shaival Plaza,Ellisbridge, Ahd.-Health awareness program for members
06/11/06- Tagore Hall,Paldi, Near Sardar Bridge, Ahd- Health awareness program, Exercise in disease prevention and rehabilitation' in the presence of prominent Doctors.
The association had arranged further programs as mentioned below
1)08/23/06-visit to Sardar Patel Smarak, Shahibaugh and arranged lunch thereon
2)09/2/06 – Musical program of Nipa Shah and at H K COLLEGE HALL ASHRAM ROAD
3)12/03/06-NEW YEAR GATHERING at LIONS HALL, MITHAKALI, with Aa lecture of DR Mukund Mehta
4)12/10/06- movie ‘VIVAH’ AT City gold multiplex, ashram road
5)12/24/06- Picnic to Mahudi and Ambaji
The programs In the year 2007
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1`)OI/21/07- Lecture of Ramesh Rawal, legal Consultant(USA) At Lions Hall, Mithakhali, Ahd
2)01/28/07-Picnic to ‘Ninad Garden, Dhuma Village, near Ahd
3)02/14/07- AKTA DAY EVENTS at Karnavati Club
4)02./18/07- General Body Meeting at Indian Institute of Education, Navjivan Press Road
( This is on the basis of feed back received from the NRI Parent Association, Ahd through their various circulars.)
The administrative measures taken by NRI Parent Association,AHD
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The Association has plan to arrange area level group meeting of the area members under the elected group leader and convener to make the Association more active and to provide members facilities as under
1) To develop further fellowship
2) To discuss the forthcoming programs
3) To hand over personally all relative communications.
4)To provide facilities like pluming,electrical, medicine, and courier services etc by arranging at reasonable rate with local agencies.
5)To increase the membership .
The Action taken now
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The NRI Parent Association has now divided it activities accordingly in small groups on the basis of area in order to bring more personal approach and to create better communication system. Each group consist of Convener and group leader are now arranging periodical meetings of their area and explain the communications received by central committee and and also obtains suggestion from the individual members in order to transmit the same to central committee for improving the working of association. The Groups were divided as per areas of the Ahemdabad metropolitan City as under:-
1)Navrangpura/Drivein Area
2)Paldi/Vasana/Shreyas/Settelite
3)Ambawadi/Vastrapure/Vejalpur/Bodakdev
4)Naranpura/Usmanpura
5)Maninagar
6)City Areas/Sahibaugh/Sabarrmati

The Association also intend to arrange further Musical program,Comedy drama etc in future. Besides that they also intend to arrange members visit to Hospitals like Sterling/ Apollo and to the pharmaceutical firms like Cadila and Zaydas respectively.
The up dated up to June 06 as per feed back from Ahd
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You may refer Newspaper Reports regarding NRI Parent Association-AHD as under.
(IN THE ABOVE PHOTO NRI PARENTS)
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1) 'Metro-Amdavad' afternoon Gujarati Newspaper(Published from Ahmedabad) report dated14th may 2005
2) 'Gujarat Times' Gujarati Weekly published from New York/Canada report dated 8th July 2005, 19th August 2005, 23rd September 2005, and 25th November 2005(i.e.under' Saptak' supplementary front page report) respectively.
3) 'Sandesh' Gujarati Daily(Published from Ahmedabad) dated 18 th August 2005, and 12th September 2005 respectively.

"Inaguration of NRI Parent Association-Ahmedabad"

Background and History of ‘NRI Parent Association-Ahemdabad
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The American Indian Senior even though live in America but they never forgets the problems of seniors in their country of origin. We had ICSC at Santa Clara California, which now merged with India Community Center. We are running several programs like, family day, Friends on same wavelength, Current Events, Yoga meditation, and Chhajuka Chaubara, etc. One of the initial program ‘Chhajjuka chaubara’ (i.e. A creative writing program) which is also popular are always attended by seniors who visit or settle down in Silicon Valley. You can meet new faces frequently here who are visitor.
We met in some of the sessions of program the office bearers of ‘NRI Parent Associations of Poona, Baroda etc. They brief our members what types of services they are rendering to the NRI Parents in their receptive places. We felt it was very much necessary to have such organization at Ahmedabad, which is having large numbers of NRI parents. Besides that Ahmedabad is commercially very active and is very near to the Gujarat’s capital Ghandhinagar. I t can serve their cause very well. Therefore I decided to find people who can take up the responsibilities to run such organization when I next time visit Ahmedabad.
My stay was long at Ahmedabad in 2005 and it helps me organize the association.
I was trying to collect some people to organize the NRI Parent Association where I came across to Jayantibhai D Shah who is a good organizer. He showed his intention to stay in India for long time then but he changed his decision thereafter due to his personal/family reasons. However he was a person who join with me at initial stage.
The people from Poona and Baroda also wanted to innate the floating of NRI Parent Association at Ahmedabad.
In context of above one day Mamta Solanky, Journalist from Metro, Ahmedabad, Newspaper came to me to take my interview regarding formation of NRI Parent Association at Ahmedabad and which was publish in the issue of 14th may 2005. It was received very well and so many people contacted me and shown interest. I was interested in those people who take over and look after the association very well as and when I leave India. One Hemant Shah, Businessman and connected with so many organizations contacted me and show me keen interest in the formation of NRI Parent Association. He him self is also one of the NRI parents.
We had a several meetings along with Jayantibhai D Shah at my place and decided to call the meeting of NRI Parents by issuing public circular giving its aims and objectives. Shri Jayantibhai Shah offered his place for the meeting with other facilities.
We had also made approach to Jayantilal K Shah and Jashbhai U Patel during the process of formation of NRI Parent Association, Ahd and were willing to help the Association in every manner.
The first General meeting was hold on 19th June 2005 accordingly and wherein decided to form NRI Parent Association, AHD. We also fixed annual fees of Rs500/- and executive committee of Association thereon. The executive committee was also given power to select first office bearers of the Association.
The office bearers were elected in the next meeting of executive committee wherein Bharat Desai. Hon Chairman, Hemant Shah, President, Bipin Patel, C G Desai, Vice Chairman’s Indaravadan Shah, Narendra Shah Secretaries, Suresh Shah, Naresh Patel, Treasures were appointed. The Hon Chairman position was given to me, looking at my contribution as a founder member and with the understanding that will leave India in near future.
We had get-together meeting with dinner on30th July 2005 at Dadi Dinning Hall, Pritamnagar, and Ahmedabad wherein Ramesh Tanna, Resident Editor of Gujarat Times was chief guest. The members were briefed regarding the aims, objectives and future plan of the association. Chandravadan Desai, Vice Presidents gave some idea regarding American law for senior citizens. Ramesh Tanna assured all support to the newly founded organization. Bipin Patel one of the Vice Presidents who was appointed secretary of Gujarat chamber of commerce was also honored in his absence. The large number of members attended the program.
We had also arranged general body meeting in the August 2005 at Lions Hall, where in we had direct interaction with the members. The members made several suggestions. Even Hon chairman also requested members to actively observe the performance of association and to make suggestion to make improvement thereof. Hon chairman also stressed on points regarding registration of the association, for early drafting of the constitution and making running of the association economically more viable.
Finally the NRI Parent Association, AHD, was officially inaugurated by Krishnakant Vakharia, Chairman, Vishwa Gujarati Samaj at Ahemdabad Medical Association Hall. Mukesh Patel, Tax Consultant, Mahendra Shah, Divya Bhasker Newspaper, and Geetaben Patel, USA also attended the function as guest. The function was well received by the members. It was also well received by the media.
However the membership had reached to about150 by October 05.
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From left standing Jashbhai Patel, Jayantilal Shah, Hemant Shah, Ramesh Tanna, Resident Editor of Gujarat Times, Ahd, lightening the lamp, Indravadan Shah, Suresh Pathak,and Bharat Desai at NRI Parent Association's meeting, Dadi Dinning Conference Hall, Ahemdabad on 30th July 2005
NRI PARENT ASSOCIATION-AHEMDABAD
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